Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 243 290
Rank change year-on-year -64 +47 -70
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 501 536 879
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.64% 1.30% 0.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 1.40% 1.14%
Number of salaries quoted 212 308 499
10th Percentile £43,063 £45,875 £42,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £56,357 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +3.70% -4.93%
75th Percentile £95,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £100,750 £113,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £63,076 £65,000 £58,700
% change year-on-year -2.96% +10.73% -9.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 60,236 38,342 77,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 76.83% 93.07% 86.53%
Number of salaries quoted 37,103 22,499 57,686
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -10.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -8.26%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 30 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 30 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -64 453 £75,000 +7.14% 221
London +42 259 £90,000 +20.00% 105
Work from Home +39 220 £75,000 +15.38% 95
UK excluding London -121 191 £63,076 -2.96% 137
North of England -35 61 £76,250 -1.61% 31
South East -110 41 £57,500 -11.54% 47
North West -14 37 £85,000 +6.25% 16
Midlands -39 36 £63,076 -2.96% 19
West Midlands -16 26 £58,750 -9.62% 11
East of England -8 22 £60,100 -7.54% 21
Yorkshire -43 21 £65,793 +102.44% 13
South West -67 18 £62,500 -3.29% 12
Northern Ireland - 11 £75,000 - 1
East Midlands -45 10 £80,000 +18.52% 8
Scotland -40 4 £55,000 +22.22% 6
Wales - 4 £61,001 - 6
North East -20 3 £63,076 -23.54% 2

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (3.59%) Confluence
2 11 (2.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 11 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.60%) CMS
4 2 (0.40%) CICS
4 2 (0.40%) MTS
5 1 (0.20%) Drupal
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 20 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (3.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 16 (3.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.60%) Trello
7 2 (0.40%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 11 (2.20%) Workfront
2 9 (1.80%) Payment Gateway
3 4 (0.80%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.60%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Magento
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle SCM
5 1 (0.20%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (12.97%) AWS
2 62 (12.38%) SaaS
3 53 (10.58%) Azure
4 21 (4.19%) Power Platform
5 19 (3.79%) Pulumi
6 18 (3.59%) iPaaS
7 16 (3.19%) GitHub
8 15 (2.99%) GCP
9 13 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (2.40%) GitHub Copilot
11 9 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
11 9 (1.80%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.60%) H2O.ai
12 8 (1.60%) OpenShift
12 8 (1.60%) PaaS
13 5 (1.00%) Asana
13 5 (1.00%) Snowflake
14 4 (0.80%) Collibra
14 4 (0.80%) Google Workspace
14 4 (0.80%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 43 (8.58%) Broadband
2 14 (2.79%) HTTP
3 8 (1.60%) SD-WAN
3 8 (1.60%) WAN
4 6 (1.20%) LAN
4 6 (1.20%) RTP
5 4 (0.80%) NGN
6 3 (0.60%) Multicast
6 3 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.60%) Wireless
7 2 (0.40%) Network Security
7 2 (0.40%) VPN
8 1 (0.20%) 4G
8 1 (0.20%) 5G
8 1 (0.20%) Bluetooth
8 1 (0.20%) Firewall
8 1 (0.20%) MPLS
8 1 (0.20%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.39%) Metadata
2 20 (3.99%) NoSQL
2 20 (3.99%) Power BI
2 20 (3.99%) RDBMS
2 20 (3.99%) Relational Database
3 9 (1.80%) Data Lake
4 7 (1.40%) Tableau
5 6 (1.20%) Data Mining
5 6 (1.20%) SAP BW
5 6 (1.20%) SQL Server
6 3 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (0.60%) SAP HANA
7 2 (0.40%) Big Data
7 2 (0.40%) DB2
8 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (4.99%) JIRA
2 19 (3.79%) Jaeger
3 3 (0.60%) ERwin
3 3 (0.60%) PowerDesigner
4 1 (0.20%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.20%) Git
General
1 187 (37.33%) Finance
2 172 (34.33%) Social Skills
3 131 (26.15%) Marketing
4 92 (18.36%) Analytical Skills
5 70 (13.97%) Banking
6 63 (12.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 52 (10.38%) Retail
8 48 (9.58%) Law
9 41 (8.18%) Legal
10 39 (7.78%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (7.58%) Presentation Skills
12 30 (5.99%) Financial Institution
13 28 (5.59%) Public Sector
14 27 (5.39%) Back Office
15 22 (4.39%) Manufacturing
16 17 (3.39%) Digital Economy
16 17 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (2.20%) Automotive
17 11 (2.20%) Italian Language
18 10 (2.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 141 (28.14%) Product Manager
2 71 (14.17%) Lead
2 71 (14.17%) Senior
3 42 (8.38%) Product Owner
4 36 (7.19%) Senior Manager
5 31 (6.19%) Senior Product Manager
6 20 (3.99%) Developer
7 19 (3.79%) Product Lead
8 17 (3.39%) Consultant
8 17 (3.39%) Digital Product Manager
9 15 (2.99%) Development Engineer
9 15 (2.99%) Software Engineer
10 14 (2.79%) Change Manager
10 14 (2.79%) Product Management Director
10 14 (2.79%) Software Development Engineer
11 13 (2.59%) Cloud Engineer
12 12 (2.40%) Senior Development Engineer
12 12 (2.40%) Senior Software Development Engineer
12 12 (2.40%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (2.20%) Business Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.79%) Elastic Stack
1 19 (3.79%) OpenTelemetry
2 17 (3.39%) REST
3 8 (1.60%) Keras
3 8 (1.60%) PyTorch
3 8 (1.60%) TensorFlow
3 8 (1.60%) YAML
4 4 (0.80%) .NET
5 3 (0.60%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (0.40%) CSS
6 2 (0.40%) HTML
6 2 (0.40%) Next.js
6 2 (0.40%) Spring
6 2 (0.40%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.20%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.20%) Flask
7 1 (0.20%) PySpark
7 1 (0.20%) React
7 1 (0.20%) RESTful
7 1 (0.20%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 116 (23.15%) Product Ownership
2 32 (6.39%) Self-Motivation
3 31 (6.19%) Onboarding
4 29 (5.79%) Management Information System
4 29 (5.79%) Social Media
5 28 (5.59%) Cloud Native
6 20 (3.99%) Marketing Technology
7 19 (3.79%) Over-the-Top Content
8 15 (2.99%) Public Cloud
9 13 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
10 9 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.60%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.60%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.40%) Data Fabric
13 6 (1.20%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.20%) IoT
13 6 (1.20%) Mobile App
13 6 (1.20%) Podcast
13 6 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 23 (4.59%) Linux
2 19 (3.79%) Unix
3 6 (1.20%) Windows
4 2 (0.40%) zOS
5 1 (0.20%) Android
5 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (56.09%) Roadmaps
2 231 (46.11%) Agile
3 140 (27.94%) Product Roadmap
4 110 (21.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 109 (21.76%) Continuous Improvement
6 102 (20.36%) Problem-Solving
7 101 (20.16%) Product Strategy
8 98 (19.56%) AI
9 94 (18.76%) Mentoring
9 94 (18.76%) Product Vision
10 80 (15.97%) Decision-Making
11 78 (15.57%) Analytics
12 73 (14.57%) User Experience
13 67 (13.37%) User Stories
14 63 (12.57%) Coaching
15 61 (12.18%) Business Development
16 59 (11.78%) Customer Experience
17 58 (11.58%) DevOps
17 58 (11.58%) Project Management
18 57 (11.38%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.18%) Python
2 38 (7.58%) Java
3 25 (4.99%) JavaScript
3 25 (4.99%) SQL
4 20 (3.99%) Go
5 19 (3.79%) Bash
6 8 (1.60%) PowerShell
7 5 (1.00%) Bicep
8 4 (0.80%) C#
9 2 (0.40%) COBOL
9 2 (0.40%) JCL
9 2 (0.40%) PHP
9 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.40%) R
10 1 (0.20%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 92 (18.36%) Degree
2 35 (6.99%) Master's Degree
3 28 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 23 (4.59%) Security Cleared
5 20 (3.99%) AWS Certification
6 15 (2.99%) SC Cleared
7 7 (1.40%) DBS Check
8 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.20%) PMI Certification
8 6 (1.20%) PMP
9 5 (1.00%) MBA
10 4 (0.80%) HNC
11 3 (0.60%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.40%) Azure Certification
12 2 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (0.40%) CBAP
12 2 (0.40%) CCNA
12 2 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
12 2 (0.40%) CISSP
12 2 (0.40%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.79%) QA
2 13 (2.59%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.20%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.80%) NCSC
5 8 (1.60%) NIST
6 7 (1.40%) GDPR
7 5 (1.00%) PMO
8 4 (0.80%) IFRS
8 4 (0.80%) SLA
9 3 (0.60%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.60%) PERC
10 2 (0.40%) COREP
10 2 (0.40%) FINREP
11 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.20%) GMP
11 1 (0.20%) GRC
11 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 23 (4.59%) Docker
2 2 (0.40%) RACF
3 1 (0.20%) Firmware
3 1 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 30 (5.99%) Terraform
2 23 (4.59%) Kubernetes
3 19 (3.79%) Ansible
3 19 (3.79%) Argo
3 19 (3.79%) Kustomize
3 19 (3.79%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
5 1 (0.20%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 47 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 35 (6.99%) Google
3 27 (5.39%) Adobe
4 13 (2.59%) Salesforce
5 9 (1.80%) Oracle
6 8 (1.60%) Databricks
6 8 (1.60%) Dell
6 8 (1.60%) NVIDIA
7 7 (1.40%) SAP
8 6 (1.20%) Foundry
9 4 (0.80%) Sage
9 4 (0.80%) Toshiba
9 4 (0.80%) YouTube
10 3 (0.60%) Bloomberg
10 3 (0.60%) CQG
10 3 (0.60%) ION Trading
10 3 (0.60%) Patsystems
10 3 (0.60%) Reuters
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.60%) Trayport